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London: Clubs at lower levels in English football remain concerned about their finances despite record amounts of cash flowing to teams in the elite Premier League, a survey showed on Tuesday.
Faced with the need to tighten their belts, clubs are willing to comply with curbs on losses or wages that...

Pune: Pune FC have signed former Portsmouth FC academy defender Calum Angus for the upcoming 201314 ILeague season, the club announced on Wednesday.
The Englishman, a 6foot tall 27yearold central defender, joined the ILeague runnersup side after spending four years at Swedish side Gothenburg Athletics and Sports Association, popularly known as...

London: English Premier League clubs responded to concerns about spiraling wages by agreeing on Thursday to impose the first spending controls by a major European league. UEFA warned on Monday that the failure to control salaries, which have risen 40 per cent at leading European clubs in five years, was...

London: Curbs on club wage bills and other financial safeguards will be discussed next week when English Premier League teams meet to examine ways to ensure teams operate on a sound financial basis.
The 20team Premier League is the richest in the world in terms of revenue but player salary costs...

Moscow: Czech striker Milan Baros has retired from international football, national team spokesman Jaroslav Kolar said on Friday.
Baros, 30, played in all four of the Czech Republic's games at Euro 2012 before they exited with a 10 defeat to Portugal on Thursday.
"After the game, Baros told his teammates that his...

London: Fulham swept to a stunning 30 victory over Manchester United and last place Portsmouth beat Liverpool 20 on a day of shocks in the Premier League on Saturday.
Danny Murphy, Bobby Zamora and Damien Duff punished United's makeshift defence at Craven Cottage and denied the defending champion any chance of...

New Delhi: Struggling Newcastle United welcomed Portsmouth to St James Park with manager Alan Shearer insisting the fixture was one of the biggest games of his career.
A lofty statement indeed and so it proved as Shearer picked an adventurous starting lineup featuring Alan Smith, Mark Viduka, Obafemi Martins and Michael...

New Delhi: Goals in the first and last 10 minutes were enough for Manchester United to ease past Portsmouth at Old Trafford and return to the top of the Premier League.
The Red Devils made a confident start and were ahead on nine minutes when Wayne Rooney tapped home Ryan Giggs...

It was a wet and wild affair at Fratton Park as a late Didier Drogba strike gave the visiting side three vital points. Portsmouth 01 Chelsea.
First Half
It was Chelsea that begun with more gusto on the windy plains of New Hampshire as Portsmouth looked nervous as the game commenced. A...

New Delhi: The Arsenal boss was surprised by the sackings this week of the Chelsea and Portsmouth managers.
Arsene Wenger has called for football club chairmen to be more patient in the wake of this week's sackings of Luiz Felipe Scolari and Tony Adams as managers of Chelsea and Portsmouth,...

New Delhi: Liverpool are back atop the Premier League pile, but they made a meal of their Fratton Park visit. Nugent and Hreidarsson twice gave Portsmouth the lead, but Aurelio, Kuyt and, crucially, Torres, conspired to win it for the Reds
Due to the midweek loss of Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard,...

London: English Premiere League football club Portsmouth have accepted a bid from Tottenham to sign England striker Jermain Defoe on a fiveyear contract.
The deal, which is expected to be worth about 15 million, would mean Defoe returning to the club he left under a year ago.
Defoe...

New Delhi: Arsenal managed to climb back into fourth place after a hard fought win over Portsmouth that came courtesy of a late William Gallas goal.
Arsenal left it late but they eventually managed to pick up all three points against a resilient Portsmouth side, thanks to a Gallas goal less...

New Delhi: Real Madrid have made their second acquisition of the winter transfer window by securing Portsmouth midfielder Lassana Diarra's signature.
Los Blancos announced via their official website on Sunday evening that they have essentially sealed the 23yearold's arrival already, although the actual mechanics of the transfer won't be completed until...

Portsmouth Portsmouth defeated Tottenham 20 on Sunday, with Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch scoring against their former club. In another Premier League game, Manchester City was upset 21 at Wigan.
Defoe scored on a penalty kick in the 34th minute for his 13th goal in 18 games since being sold by...

London: Police searched three professional football clubs Premier League sides Newcastle and Portsmouth and Scottish club Rangers along with the homes of two people on Monday as part of an investigation into corruption.
All three clubs confirmed they had been visited by City of London Police in the raid....

New Delhi: Wayne Rooney came off the bench to score twice as Manchester United beat Portsmouth 21 in the fourth round of the FA Cup on Saturday.
United dominated the game, but Portsmouth goalkeeper David James kept his team in the fray with some fine saves.
Rooney came off the bench...